who's rockin' a single pickup guitar? let's see it!

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xntrick said:
Maple superstrat with EMG 81X with afterburner boost.

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Gorgeous, must weight a tone tho
 
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PoorMan said:
I just got this up and running yesterday.

2007 Melody Maker. Routed it for a P-90, Faber compensated TP, Steel studs/bushings, bone nut...

A great stripped down little screamer. Very light and fun to play.

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Very cool. Last weekend, I was at an older collector's house and he had an original Melody Maker with a PAF installed back in that era. It looked like yours only the plastic on both sides of the humbucker was gone and there was a pickup ring in there. It still had the dome shaped piece of plastic guard above the humbucker. Yours looks better.
 
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Gearjoneser said:
Very cool. Last weekend, I was at an older collector's house and he had an original Melody Maker with a PAF installed back in that era. It looked like yours only the plastic on both sides of the humbucker was gone and there was a pickup ring in there. It still had the dome shaped piece of plastic guard above the humbucker. Yours looks better.
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Thanks! I'm loving this guitar. Simple stripped down rock and roll machine.

I'm sure the vintage PAF MM was nice too. :)
 
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Gearjoneser said:
Very cool. Last weekend, I was at an older collector's house and he had an original Melody Maker with a PAF installed back in that era. It looked like yours only the plastic on both sides of the humbucker was gone and there was a pickup ring in there. It still had the dome shaped piece of plastic guard above the humbucker. Yours looks better.
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I guy I used to work with in northern Cal did that too back in the 90's. He got a MM for a song at the shop we worked at. Went and installed a '59 model in it. Looked great and sounded amazing.
 
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Myaccount876 said:
Oh I understand. How well does it stay in tune and where did you get one? I might want to use one now.
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I use a graphite nut with locking tuners and it holds up quite well. I got mine brand new back in the day but the only place you can find them now is on ebay, they are no longer made.
 
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All my guitars are one pup guitars... my toggle switch never gets to the neck pup ever...
 
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PoorMan said:
I just got this up and running yesterday.

2007 Melody Maker. Routed it for a P-90, Faber compensated TP, Steel studs/bushings, bone nut...

A great stripped down little screamer. Very light and fun to play.

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Nice!

Yours started out like mine did...I love the P-90 in a MM, they just SCREAM!
 
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Here's my single pickup guitars (I apologise for the rubbish pictures):

This is a 'Bitsa' Strat I built with the neck from a MIM Roland Ready Strat that used to belong to TO, an Ash body made by a British guitar builder called Roger Giffin, an Allparts bridge and scratchplate and a Bareknuckle Pickups Cold Sweat pickup. The pickup is quite a bright, high output ceramic affair that really shouldn't work in this guitar, but it just does for some reason. It was in no way made to emulate a Tom Delonge (sp?) Strat at all, but it's hard to avoid the comparison with this type of guitar.

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This is a really cheap Tele copy that I picked up for £80 as I wanted something to just leave around the house and to take away when I went on holiday in this country etc but ended up liking the neck on it so I gutted it, had a scratchplate made for it (no replacement 1 I found would fit) and put a 12k - 13k Broadcaster style Bareknuckle Piledriver in it.

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xntrick said:
I use a graphite nut with locking tuners and it holds up quite well. I got mine brand new back in the day but the only place you can find them now is on ebay, they are no longer made.
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Dang whatever is leftover is expensive. You could get a genuine Original Floyd Rose for that price.
 
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